MOTM

Les Mizzell writes:
>>What are you waiting on? Just do it.
You *have* the programming and performance chops and you know it!<<

Well I still plan on it, but I'm not in the business, others are, but aren't
doing anything.  However, that's a bit like telling a magician to videotape
himself performing a magic act and then play it back so he can watch
himself.  I expect to hear synth music from others, as I'm already familiar
with my own stuff that would go onto a CD.

BTW I hope nobody got the impression that I was saying the new Bhatia CD was
no good.  I may well be interesting in itself and very well done.  It just
isn't really a synth CD, nor satisfy the 2.5+ decade synthesis vacancy left
by synthesists like Tomita or Carlos.

Since I just uploaded this to another forum, might as well to this dead list
too.  It's an attempt to get acoustic piano tones out of a simple synth, in
this case a Multimoog (could be just about any simple synth) and in this
case a cheap Behringer Virtualizer multi-effects unit.  It was sampled into
an E4K to be played.  It's got lots of problems and is a bit quirky, but I
may be able to port the idea to Reaktor and solve the problems and improve
it for actual use.  This is part of a bunch of new concepts I've come up
with to use outboard effects to generate sophisticated and complex sounds
from the simplest and cheesiest synth tones fed into them.  Three different
piano tones in this short demo:

http://home.att.net/~elhardt3/Multimoog_Virtualizer_Piano.mp3

-Elhardt

I'm looking for 2 UEGs. If you have one or two you're interested in selling,
please drop me a line.

Thanks,
-Greg James

...... Original Message .......
On Tue, 3 Jun 2008 21:29:36 -0400 "Kenneth Elhardt" 
<elhardt@...> wrote:
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>
>Since I just uploaded this to another forum, might as well to this dead 
list
>too. 

Dead list? How dare you!

(Get it? Reply two days later? Humor can get lost in email, believe you 
me....)

Interesting experiment, you seem to be onto something there. What did the 
Behringer list think of it? 

;)

Jeff Laity writes:
>>Interesting experiment, you seem to be onto something there. What did the
Behringer list think of it?<<

I didn't know there was a Behringer list.  But I doubt they care about
sophisticated and original use of effects devices anymore than this dead
list does.  When I port the technique over to Reaktor and try to tame/refine
it, then maybe the Reaktor list will find it interesting.

Speaking of effects devices, I've run across some very good sales lately
incase anybody just happens to be in the market.  One is of the Behringer
REV2496 digital reverb unit on sale for $100 at Musician's Friend.  I just
ordered one.  Can't pass up that price.  It's a highly spec'd reverb unit
that emulates high-end reverbs, and can actually run two reverbs
simultaneously, but it also has flanger/chorus, phaser, compressor too.  It
got good reveiws in SOS, and everybody who's bought one was surprised at the
reverb quality (providing the unit doesn't stop working after a few
weeks/months as some have experienced).

And the Lexicon MPX-1 has been discontinued.  Most places are blowing them
out for $400 now, down from $700 street price a few months ago, which was
down from $900 street price a few years ago.  I think it lists for  about
$1250.  What that means is Lexicon no longer has sophisticated effects unit
for less than about $2000 now, or maybe not at all.  Just one more sign of
the dead digital effects market.

-Elhardt